SURVIVAL BY DEGREES
Episode 4: Climate Change and Individual Moral Duties with Dr. Anna Luisa Lippold
In the fourth episode of our new themed series Survival by Degrees, Dr. Anna Luisa Lippold, Policy Advisor for Mobility, Urban and Rural Development at Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, puts forth the suggestion that the responsibility for tackling climate change is a public notion, rather than an individual effort.
The discussion is in context of Lippold's recent work “Climate Change and Individual Moral Duties”, published by mentis Verlag, an imprint of Brill.
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Episode 3: Climate Change, Oceans and Gender, with Nilufer Oral
Oceans are inextricably linked to the climate. Today, oceans are warming up far more rapidly than they have in the past 65 million years, placing the spotlight on the important nexus between climate change and the ocean.
Climate change affects everyone, but socioeconomically vulnerable communities (and particularly the women in those communities) are affected the most.
In the third episode of our new themed series 'Survival by Degrees', Prof. Nilufer Oral, Director of the Center for International Law, National University of Singapore, and member of the United Nations International Law Commission, takes a closer look at the place of gender in relation to climate change and oceans, in the context of her work "Climate Change, Oceans and Gender”.
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Episode 2: Milieudefensie v. Shell: A Tipping Point in Climate Change Litigation against Corporations? with Andreas Hösli
In May 2021, a landmark court order from a district court in the Netherlands ruled that Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest fossil fuel companies in the world, needs to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030.
How did a court in the Netherlands pass a ruling on a global company? Does the Paris Agreement hold for transnational private entities like Shell? What does this mean for corporations going forward?
In this second episode of our new themed series Survival by Degrees, Andreas Hösli answers these and other questions in the context of his article “Milieudefensie v. Shell: A Tipping Point in Climate Change Litigation against Corporations?”, published in Climate Law.
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Episode 1: Forces of Production, Climate Change, and Canadian Fossil Capitalism, with Dr Nicolas Graham
As one of the most serious threats to life on our planet, the climate crisis is no longer something we can address in the future, we must act on it now.
In this first episode of our new themed series 'Survival by Degrees', Dr. Nicolas Graham describes the influence of fossil fuels in sustaining our unending quest for economic growth and profit. He also highlights the drastic changes needed along production lines to become eco-friendly. He talks about these in the context of his book “Forces of Production, Climate Change, and Canadian Fossil Capitalism,”.
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